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Skillshare

Watercolor Secrets: Seven Tips to Level-Up your Art

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Overview

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In this class, I’ll show you 7 different techniques to level-up your watercolor skills. Each one takes no more than 10 minutes and can be applied to painting skies, loose flowers, trees and much more. Regardless of your style this deceivingly easy looking techniques make a huge difference.

 As a result, we’ll create a final watercolor artwork combining several techniques we’ve learned along the way.

This class is for you if you’re a beginner and want to learn effective techniques to make quick progress.If you’re a professional or you’ve been painting for a while, I’m sure you’ll find some helpful insights too.

Lessons include:

  • Materials overview
  • History of watercolors and Inspiration
  • Abstract brush warm-up
  • Painting fluffy trees
  • Painting clouds
  • Painting loose flowers and leaves
  • Crafty stamp technique
  • Creating a big final project

 

Syllabus

  • Intro
  • Why Watercolor?..Inspiration!
  • Materials
  • Demo 1: Dancing Brush
  • Demo 2: Fluffy Trees
  • Demo 3: Loose Flowers and Leaves
  • Demo 4: Night Glow
  • Demo 5: Clouds
  • Demo 6: Tape Shape
  • Demo 7: Very Berry Stamp
  • Big Project
  • Your Task
  • Final Thoughts

Taught by

Anna Sokolova

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